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CBT@News 102/2009 "ITA@News nº 29" Prezado associado,
Encaminhamos o ITA@News nº 29. Atenciosamente, Comitê Brasileiro de Túneis Welcome to the ita@news n°29 If you can´t read this newsletter in your e-mail client follow this link to the online version Please find the new ita@news. The full news are available by clicking on the title of each news. Enjoy your reading. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any comments or questions. Message from Martin Knights, ITA President It was with much regret that we were informed about the recent death of our past President Dan Eisenstein. Dan was a very generous character who was energetic and always available. Past President Andre Assis has written an obituary about Dan in this newsletter and Andre has expressed all our feelings towards Dan and his family.Dan will be missed by colleagues, friends and most of all by his family. Since my last message the ITA Exco and myself have had the opportunity to meet with many members from around the world to measure the pulse of tunnel market. In Hungary the ITA WTC was held in... Prof. Dan Eisenstein passed away ZDENEK DAN EISENSTEIN, PhD, DSc, PEng, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Alberta, ITA Former President (1992-1995)It is with deepest sadness that we have to inform you of the death of Prof. Zdenek Dan Eisenstein. Dan died in Vancouver, Canada, on the 1st of June 2009, following a relatively short but intense battle with metastatic colon cancer. Please leave a message and read the condolences book . Information about the memorial service can also be found there.Znedek Eisenstein (Dan) was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. He received his Undergraduate and... 35th ITA General Assembly Press Release The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association held its thirty-fifth meeting in Budapest, Hungary, from 23 to 28 May, in conjunction with the World Tunnel Congress 2009 "Safe Tunnelling for the City and for the Environment" organised by ITA and the Hungarian Tunnelling Association. 1100 persons participated to the Congress. 40 of the 55 Member Nations participated or were represented in the General Assembly. (download the press release) see the pictures ITA Open Session on planning of modern tunnel projects The Open Session was introduced by Piergiorgio Grasso and coordinated by P. Grasso and E. Grov. During the Open Session,presentations were made by : Amanda Elioff, Animateur of WG 20 on "Modern Tunnel Planning – A U.S. Perspective"; Gusztav Klados on “The Smart project in Malaysia”; Pablo Bueno on “Madrid Metro and M30 Project”; Vähäadho Ilkka / “Underground (UG) – Master Plan of Helsinki” and Gu Xin / “Master Plan of Shenzhen (China) on Master plan for the utilisation of the Underground”; Keith Tsang on “Deep Sewage Tunnels in Hong Kong”; Harvey Parker on “A new tunnel in Seattle... ITA Training Course " Risk during construction of urban tunnels in soft ground" Coordinated by M. Thewes, member of ITA Executive Council, A. Assis, President of ITA-CET and D. Peila, Animator of ITA/AITES WG18 “Training”.About 100 participants attended to the training course. 17 lectures were presented or co-presented by 24 lecturers from 10 countries. 9 lectures were contributed from various ITA Prime Sponsors, other lectures were prepared by distinguished Hungarian engineers, by ITA animateurs or by members of the ITA executive council. The high class lecturers during two days gave a total of 12 hours of excellent presentations about conventional and mechanized... News from ITA-CET Training and Education Constitution of the Foundation for Education and Training on Tunnelling and Underground Space Use The General Assembly 2009 of ITA Member Nations has just decided to support the constitution of the « Foundation for Education and Training on Tunnelling and Underground Space Use: ITA-CET » in becoming a Founding Member with a seat at the Council of the Foundation. The Foundation will be officially constituted as soon as the other organizations interested in becoming Founding Members have made themselves known and have committed themselves to pay on behalf of the Foundation an amount... ITACUS page is online At the occasion of the ITACUS Meeting in Budapest read more about the ITA Committee on Underground Space. more New ITA Report online General report on conventional tunnelling Tribune 2009 is available The issue n°33 of Tribune can be dowloaded from the website. It contains a focus on Hungary as well as ITA Member Nations reports for the year 2008 and reports from ITA Prime Sponsors and supporters. more WTC´10 - Vancouver Canada The World Tunnel Congress 2010 and 36th ITA general Assembly will take place in Vancouver Canada; 14-20 May 2010. The bulletin with call for abstract is available (download). Note that the deadline for submitting paper is July 20th, 2009. More on the web site Memorial Sir Alan Muir Wood During the General Assembly in Budapest, the whole ITA family paid tribute to Sir Alan Muir Wood. Claude Berenguier, with the help of pictures, called up the activities of Sir Alan inside ITA. Then Martin Knights handed up the ITA Plaque to David Muir Wood, Sir Alan´s son who was representing his mother, who unfortunately could not assist. A booklet recalling the presence of Sir Alan has been published and given to Sir Alan´s son.(ask the secretariat) News from Australia (Spring 2009) Australasian Tunnelling Society’s First Publication. The history of the development of performance predictions for hard rock tunnel boring machinesA compilation of technical papers by David Sugden AOContact News from Austria (June 2009) Lot LT 33 Hofjagdstrasse – The centrepiece of the Lainz Tunnel as a new rail link from the west to the Vienna´s new main railway station Monday, just before noon, and the time had come: introduced by an impressive laser show and accompanied by ear-shattering noise, a well-staged blast marked the symbolic final break-through in the Lainz Tunnel. It was indeed a great event, with buffet and a music band, gathering hundreds of guests, including tunnel miners and many local residents as well as VIPs from the construction industry and politics – in particular there were Federal Chancellor... News from China (Spring 2009) After half a year, renovation of the Longxi tunnel, which was damaged by the eartquake has been completed through more than 1400people’s hard-working. On May12th the one year anniversary of the earthquake, Longxi tunnel was reopened. 8th Iranian Tunnelling Conference Brief report to be delivering during the closing of the 8th Tunnelling Conference ITA delegation expressed his thanks and congratulations to the Iranian Tunnelling Association, and particularly Prof. YASSAGHI for the excellent organization of the 8th Iranian Tunnelling Conference. The Conference, held in Tarbiat Mohares University in Teheran on 18-20 May 2009, gathered almost 400 participants; 30 excellent lectures were orally presented on different aspects of Tunnelling: Geology, Design, Mechanization, Urban development, Management and Risk Analysis. Piergiorgio GRASSO and Harald WAGNER... News from USA The UCA of SME Executive Committee has provided a gift of 5000 US$ to ITA in order to assist ITA achieving its strategic goals. UCA of SME would like to see these funds used to support the broad interests of ITA by enhancing the publishing and communication of the technical documents and research conducted by the working groups of ITA. This would be a significant and tangible product from ITA that would enhance the organization and provide the tunnelling industry with a direct benefit. UCA of SME hopes that this gift will allow ITA to secure other Member Nations to become... News from USA (Spring 2009) Approximately, 250 tunneling and underground professionals attended Seattle Regional Tunneling Conference on May 4 to hear the latest development and approval of the large bore tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, as well as the latest progress reports from the Sound Transit Tunnel and Brightwater Conveyance tunnels in King County, WA. The day’s program, organized by the UCA of SME, built on the story and history of tunneling in the Seattle area along with the description of the complex glacial deposits, seismic setting and backfilling of the harbor, burying the first floor of many of... News from Robbins The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering has been presented to Richard Robbins for his imagination and skill in developing a hard-rock tunnel boring machine and its associated systems, resulting in a safe, economical, and efficient method for constructing tunnels. Martin Knights ITA President congratulated Richard Robbins, former ITA Vice-President : "Dear Dick, As the current President of ITA I am very pleased to add my congratulations to those of many others regarding your forthcoming award at the Franklin Institute.Its an honour for the Tunnelling fraternity and... News from ISRM Prof. Xia-Ting Feng elected as ISRM President for the term 2011-2015Three nominations for President of the ISRM for the term 2011-2015 were received: Prof. Xia-ting Feng (China), Dr Claus Erichsen (Germany) and Prof. Francois Heuze (USA). Election took place during the Council meeting and Prof. Xia-ting Feng was elected as the next ISRM President. He will start his term of office after the 12th International Congress of the ISRM, which will take place in Beijing, China, in 2011. (read more) Conference on Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age ITA continued our very good relations as an NGO with the United Nations. This year ITA Past President, Harvey Parker, was a member of the organizing committee for a Conference on Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age.This conference was held in the UN Headquarters, Chamber of ECOSOC, on 13 May 2009. It was jointly organized by the Global Alliance on Information Communication & Technology (ICT) for Development (GAID) and UN-Habitat together with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Regional Planning Association (RPA) and several private firms and organizations... China´s 4th International Symposium on Tunnelling 28-30 October 2009, Shanghai, China STUVA TAGUNG´09 1-3 December,2009, Hambourg, Germany Organised by STUVA ITA Sponsored Unsubscribe/edit your profile | Disclaimer © 2003-2008 by ITA-AITES c/o EPFL - Bât. GC - Station 18 - CH - 1015 Lausanne Editor: Olivier Vion |
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